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In any given year, the actual coldest day for your area may occur before or after the time shown on the map. ... Cleveland (Jan. 19, 1994) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (Jan. 21, 1888).
Fargo and Bismarck both hit 114 °F (46 °C). In Moorhead, Minnesota, the record high of 113 °F (45 °C) was set. The heat continued to spread, with Rockford, Illinois, hitting 102 °F (39 °C), and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, hitting 104 °F (40 °C) respectively. [22]
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
Illinois averages around 50 days of thunderstorm activity a year which put it somewhat above average for number of thunderstorm days for the United States. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 54 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 9.7 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually.
Coldest: Decatur, Alabama. The northern part of the state holds the city with the lowest average temperature: Decatur. It gets down to an average of only 50 degrees during the year.
January is known for frigid temperatures and for many the average coldest day of the year happens later in that month. NOAA map shows when the average coldest day of the year typically occurs in ...
Chicago, Illinois, reached −21 °F (−29.4 °C) [23] with wind chills of around −55 °F (−48.3 °C), [24] the coldest day of the 1990s in Chicago by far. [25] Almost all primary and secondary schools in Chicago were closed that day. Richard Daley, then mayor of Chicago advised residents not to go outside if they don't have to.
If you've had some cold weather recently, today's look back at history should make you shiver a little less. From Feb. 2-4, 1996, 29 years ago, a frigid arctic outbreak gripped the upper Midwest.